I’m confident the Senator Cornyn is a smart man, but he appears not to be so truthful nor logical. After voting to raise the debt ceiling by 4 trillion dollars during the Bush administration, Senator Cornyn has now buried his head in the sand, turning his back on the very obligations he voted for in the past. An honest statesman would own up to the obvious truth that the Nation’s debt situation can’t be resolved by cutting benefits to old people and veterans. We’ve got to raise some revenues.
This is an excerpt from Senator Franken’s Senate speech on the debt ceiling which makes clear that Senator Cornyn’s position on not raising the debt ceiling is void of intelligent logic.
We have to raise the debt ceiling because we as a nation have certain obligations that we must meet.
We have to pay for the wars we are currently engaged in. We have obligations to veterans who have served our nation in the past. We have obligations to have the dedicated men and women at FEMA who have been responding to the many floods and fires our nation has been facing.
We have obligations to seniors who have paid into Social Security all their working lives and have a right to expect a check every month in their retirement.
We have obligations under Medicare. Not just to seniors, who again have paid in, but to clinics and hospitals and health care providers, and to those who supply medicine and medical equipment.We have contractual obligations to all kinds of businesses, whether they’re building roads or water towers or providing IT services to the VA or the Park Service or the United States Senate. And I think almost everyone would agree it’s good to have guards in our federal prisons. The list of obligations goes on and on.
